Thursday, July 17, 2014

A gang of U.S. bank robbers who took three women hostage during
their getaway attempt and waged a deadly, high-speed gunbattle with
police were heavily armed, had ammunition magazines taped or strapped to
their bodies and intended to kill, police said Thursday.

Two of
the robbers were killed Wednesday along with a hostage who police said
was used by the only surviving suspect, 19-year-old Jaime Ramos, as a
shield.

"In my over two decades of law enforcement I have never
seen or experienced this type of total disregard for human life,"
Stockton Police Chief Eric Jones said.

The court records show Mr. Johnson subsequently wired money to an account controlled by Mr. Rawle totaling $250,000, and that Mr. Rawle subsequently sent payments of $8,500 and $15,000 to Mr. Swallow from that same account.

“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”

―Edward Abbey, American author

There’s a lot to love about America and its people: their pioneering
spirit, their entrepreneurship, their ability to think outside the box,
their passion for the arts, etc. Increasingly, however, as time goes
by, I find the things I don’t like about living in a nation that has
long since ceased to be a sanctuary for freedom are beginning to
outnumber the things I love.

Here’s what I don’t like about living in the American police state: I
don’t like being treated as if my only value to the government is as a
source of labor and funds. I don’t like being viewed as a consumer and
bits of data. I don’t like being spied on and treated as if I have no
right to privacy, especially in my own home.

I don’t like government officials who lobby for my vote only to ignore
me once elected. I don’t like having representatives incapable of and
unwilling to represent me. I don’t like taxation without representation.

More than 50 people from across Michigan turned out to
protest the possibility that a Vassar facility could house Central
American children and teens who have fled into the country.

The group, led by Michiganders for Immigration Control and
Enforcement organizer Tamyra Murray, marched a little more than a mile,
from Vassar City Hall to Wolverine Human Services’ Pioneer Work and
Learn Center.

Some carried AR-15 rifles and handguns, while others carried Gadsden
“Don’t Tread on Me” flags, American flags and Rochester resident Jeff
McQueen’s “second American revolution” flags, designed from Betsy Ross’
flag with a Roman Numeral II in the middle.

Late last week I reported
16 MS-13 gang members exploiting the unaccompanied minor crisis were
being housed at a Border Patrol processing center in Nogales, Arizona.
The gang members were discovered after graffiti was left on bathroom
walls. Further investigation shows gang members from different criminal
organizations were also discovered after a fight broke out between two
rival MS-13 and 18th Street gang members in a shared holding cell. The
gang members admitted in interviews with Border Patrol agents they had
engaged in murder and torture in their home countries of Honduras, El
Salvador and Guatemala before heading north to the United States. It was
also confirmed through sources gang members have been using the
processing center as a recruitment hub for new members.

Now, Border Patrol documents newly obtained exclusively by Townhall detail the crimes MS-13 and other gang members in the Nogales processing center admit to committing.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister
have ordered the Israel Defense Forces into the terrorist-controlled
Gaza Strip. The order to fight Hamas on the ground came at 10:30 p.m.
local time Thursday.

When it comes to problems and threats facing the United States, as a
former special operator and Air Force pilot, my heart lies with national
security. The destruction of our country from within is definitely
happening, but will take time. In today’s world of terrorism and
weapons of mass destruction, a threat to our national security can
manifest itself with devastating consequences in a very short period of
time. So who is minding the national security store and advising our
Dear Leader?

Let’s start with the National Security Advisor, Dr. Susan Rice, who
conveniently is married to an ABC News producer. She served in various
diplomatic posts during the Clinton presidency but State Department
veteran Richard Holbrooke considered her “incompetent.” She was
instrumental in preventing the United States from dealing with the Sudan
government when they offered to provide the U.S. intelligence on Osama
Bin Laden’s location in the late 1990s. But she is most famous for
blatantly lying to the American people regarding the cause of the
killing of a United States ambassador and four others in Benghazi,
Libya. Hopefully, Congressman Trey Gowdy’s investigation into this matter will finally provide the facts to the American people on what really happened that night.

Hundreds of unaccompanied minors are crossing into the U.S. daily,
and one of the major security concerns with the influx of illegal
immigration is that we have no idea who is coming here. Because of this,
Ronald Colburn, former national deputy chief of the U.S. Border Patrol,
says all the progress that was made after 9/11 is now gone.

I think we can start the paperwork for Anthony Jacob Chavez’s Darwin Award:

Albuquerque police say an alleged probation violator
threatened a deputy U.S. marshal with a BB gun before the deputy marshal
shot him.

Authorities have said Deputy Marshal Kenneth Daniel shot and killed 27-year-old Anthony Jacob Chavez at a home on July 2.

Chavez was on probation on a conviction for transporting people
illegally in the United States. The conviction resulted from a 2010
arrest in Luna County.

I’m tempted to write Chavez’s death off as a suicide-by-cop. Even
those individuals with room temperature IQs know that pointing a
firearm—real or replica—at a law enforcement officer is a Very Bad
Idea™.

Why the claim that “the majority of Muslims are peaceful” is pure fantasy

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Tiny team wins — large crowd loses
All of us have heard, although in a different context, that it is not
size that matters, but technique… Snicker as much as you like, but that
is actually true.
A lioness cannot match a buffalo in one-on-one combat, and a pride of
lionesses is certainly outnumbered and “outhorned” (outgunned) by a
herd of buffalos. So how can they win despite these odds; how can five
to six lionesses disrupt fifty to sixty buffalos to hunt down the one
buffalo they want to seize?
Because the buffalos are just a crowd, but the lionesses are a team.
Victory is achieved not by a large but otherwise loitering and
incoherent crowd, but by a core-sized, action-oriented and coherent
team.

"Any normal person who had been in government as long as Eric has been .
. . would've learned by now that this type of incendiary rhetoric,
which is baseless in fact . . . is simply unacceptable for a senior
government official," said diGenova.

In a fiery retort to the attorney general's recent interview with ABC News, diGenova said both his "old friend" Holder and Holder's boss, President Barack Obama, were alleging racism against an unspecified "some" to excuse their failings in office and deflect legitimate criticism.

He called Holder's generalized claim of racial resentment
"utter nonsense" and "faculty lounge crap." He also suggested that
Holder was taking his rhetorical cues from the president, whom diGenova
compared to a "street urchin" running a con.

Photographer Jeff Gusky and writer Evan Hadingham explored the forgotten caverns of the Great War
The underground chambers are decorated with signatures, slogans and even elaborate carvings by soldiers
Although better than the trenches, conditions in the cavern were unpleasant and sudden death never far away

These starkly-beautiful images bring to light the subterranean conditions endured soldiers of the First World War while they sheltering from constant artillery fire.

Even though the fear of death always hung over the men - or perhaps because of it - the soft stone of the carved-out walls are covered in personal expressions of identity and survival.

The stills were taken by Texan photographer Jeff Gusky, who chronicled the tunnels in France alongside National Geographic writer Evan Hadingham.

Mr Hadingham wrote: 'The entrance is a wet hole in the earth little bigger than an animal burrow, obscured by thorny brush in a secluded wood in northeastern France. Together we slither through the muddy hole into the darkness below.

'After a few hundred feet the tunnel ends at a little cubicle hewed out of the chalk, reminiscent of a telephone booth.'

Remembrance

Execution of Colonel Ho Ngoc CanLast words: "If I won the war, I would not condemn you as you have condemned me.I would not humiliate you as you have humiliated me.I would not ask you questions that you asked me.I fought for the freedom of my people.I have merit and I am not guilty.No one can convict me.History will criticize you as my Communist enemy.You want to kill me, then kill me.Do not blindfold me.Down with the Communists.Long live the Republic of Viet Nam !"

Colonel CraigMandeville:

“They wanted the people to see that he was dead,” said Craig Mandeville, an American adviser to the South Vietnamese army who fought side by side with Can. “He was believed to be some sort of invincible guy. The North Vietnamese thought that, too, and I even thought that when I fought with him.”

“He said, ‘OK, the country’s fallen, but by God we’re still South Vietnamese and we’re free,’ ” Mandeville recalled. “So he went down to Chuong Tien province and rounded up all these soldiers down there to form a Free Vietnam.”

Col. Can didn’t live long after that, but the legacy of his struggle lives on.

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.